Carrier-plate for hooks and eyes.



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PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

J. W. GENGEE. G AEEIER PLATE EOE HooKs AND EYES.

APPLICATION FILED 001L1-l. 194. v

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARRIER-PLATE FOR HOOKS AND EYES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed October 1l, 1904:. Serial No. 228,079.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. GRANGER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Carrier-Plates for Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a speciiication.

The object of the invention is to provide a carrier plate of novel construction for the reception of the hooks, eyes and display card,

by means of which these latter may be fed to a machine and properly sewed in position on said card.

It is further desired to provide a simple and eicient device for properly holding the display card in the carrier plate.

These objects I attain as hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a plan view of the upper face of one member of my improved carrier plate, showing the various grooves therein and also illustrating certain of the hooks and eyes in the positions occupied by them prior to their mounting upon a display card; Fig. 2, is a plan view of the upper member of my improved carrier; Fig. 3, is a plan View of the display card which it is desired shall be produced by the use of my improved carrier, showing two series of hooks and loop eyes mounted in position, together with a series of invisible eyes mounted between said two 'lirst series and held in position independently thereof, and, Fig. 4, is a sectional elevation taken through my improved carrier and showing the relative position of a display card therein.

By my invention I provide a carrier by means of which hooks and eyes may be so mounted upon a display card that any desired number of the invisible eyes may be removed without in any way affecting the fastening means either of thehooks or of the loop eyes also carried upon said card.

In the above drawings, A represents a piece of pasteboard or paper upon which two series of hooks a are mounted; these being yrespectively in engagement with two series of loop eyes a. Between each series of hooks and loop eyes is a line or series of invisible eyes a2. The hooks, as noted, are in engagement with theyloops of their respective loop eyes and the latter are held in position upon the display card A by a line of chain stitching a3 passing through the card and their thread bends. The hooks are similarly held in position by a line a4 of chain stitching, while two other lines of similar stitching a5 pass through the thread bends of the invisible eyes and thereby hold them in place between the two sets of hooks and loop eyes.

For the purpose of assembling the above mentioned hooks and eyes upon the display card, I provide the carrier B, which consists of a lower plate B and an upper plate B2. The lower plate has upwardly projecting anges or edges b and-t extending along two of its opposite sides, and the blank display card A is held in position between these edges by means of a fiat spring b2, said spring being curved outwardly so as to engage the edge of the card and being held to one of the edges of the plate by means of a screw or rivet b3 passing through one of its ends. The amount of movement of its opposite end is limited by a pin b4 and, as shown, I preferably provide a recess 225 in the plate for said spring. In order that each card A may,

when placed in the carrier, occupy a certain.

definite position, I provide two guide -lugs t along one side of the plate and a third lug t7 placed so as to engage a side of the card at right angles to thatengaged by the lugs b9.

Extending longitudinally of the plate B are six slots or recesses c, c, c2, c3, c4 and c5, each of which extends completely through the plate so as to permit the passage of the needle of a sewing machine of the type illustrated in a patent granted to me February 7, 1893, No. 491,281. Extending between each pair of the slots c and c and c4 and c5 area series of grooves or recesses ce; their number being equal to the number of hooks which it is desired to mount on any one card.r At the end of these slots adjacent to the' longitudinal slots c and c5 respectively, are enlarged and substantially semi-circular portions c7 for the reception ofthe thread holding eyelets of the loop eyes. Extending through the rib of metal between the two longitudinal slots c2 and c3 are a series of transverse grooves c8 for the reception of the central portions of the invisible eyes; it being noted that there are two of these grooves to each opposite pair of the grooves c,

For holding the hooks, eyes and display card in position in the lower member B of the carrier during the passage of the same IOO through the sewing machine, I provide the upper or cover plate B2, which preferably consists of a iiat plate of metal made with a projecting lug d placed to enter a recess in the flange b of the lower member B and having a portion cut away to prevent its interference with the spring b2. There is also a hole or recess d for the reception of the lug 127 and a series of longitudinal slots d2 so placed as to be directly overfgthe slots c to c5 inclusive, of the plate B. v

When it isdesiredlto assemble hooks and eyes upon display cards, the former are mounted in the lower plate B', as shown in Fig. l, it being noted that in every instance the thread receiving bends of the various hooks and eyes extend over their appropriate longitudinal slotsb After all of the transverse slots cG and c8 have been filled with their proper hooks andeyes, I place a sheet of cardboard or stiff paper A on the plate B', holding it in the desired position by means of the spring b2. The upper plate or cover is then placed in position over the card and the carrier is passed fthrough a sewing machine having six needles, which respectively operate through the slots d2 of the upper plate B2 and the slots c to c5 inclusive, of the lower plate, thereby simultaneously stitching the various hooks and eyes to their display card, so that?!i this latter appears as illustrated in Fig. 3.

I claim as my invention 1 A carrier for holding hooks, eyes and a card during the assembling of the same, said carrierconsisting of an upper and a lower plate, of which one is provided with longitudinally extending needle slots, and a plurality of series of grooves transverse to said slots, two series of the grooves being adapted to receive hooks and loop eyes and another series being shaped to receive invisible eyes, the grooves of said latter series all terminating in two of the longitudinal slots independently of the other slots and said other slots extending in pairs adjacent to the respective ends of the series of grooves for the hooks and loop eyes, a-stop on one side of the carrier placed to limit the movement of a card between the plates, a spring of sheet material held to the carrier at one end and placed on the side thereof opposite the stop, said spring being convexly bent so as to directly engage a card between the plates, with a stop placed to be engaged by the free end of the spring for limiting the movement thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this speciiication, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. GRANGER.

Witnesses:

W'ILLIAM E. BRADLEY, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

